Following Israel's recent major cyberattack on devices used by members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, serious concerns have been raised about the potential for similar techniques to spread to other electronic devices, including mobile phones and GPS trackers. The incident has raised questions about the safety of such devices used by the military, especially in the context of a special military operation.

Experts fear that if cyberattacks can successfully disable or even explode devices, then similar attacks could theoretically be directed at other targets. This poses a real threat to anyone using such devices, including military personnel using mobile phones and GPS trackers in combat zones.

One of the first to draw attention to this problem was former military pilot Ilya Tumanov, known online under the pseudonym Fighterbomber. He noted that the decision to ban the use of devices with advanced multimedia capabilities by the military, which was made earlier by the Russian command, turned out to be not only correct, but, perhaps, life-saving in the conditions of the current cyber war.

“I watch the news and understand that the ban on devices with advanced multimedia capabilities was a brilliant intuition of the top brass and the prevention of their explosions and fires as a result of the actions of third parties and, accordingly, with the aim of preserving the lives and health of military personnel and expensive equipment.”, Tumanov emphasized in his statement.

Experts do not rule out that, against this background, control over the use of gadgets by the military will need to be strengthened.